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| Street Prophets: Some storytelling <big> Street Prophets Coffee Hour is an Open Thread. Bring your favorite cuppa, and hang with us a while. What’s on your mind today? And feel welcome to put your community links in comments. To start, here are community links of a sister-group in... |
mettle fatigue | 01/26/2020 | 14 |
| On the Sunday shows, Trump's Senate bootlickers show how low they can go The level to which Republicans will sink to defend Donald Trump on anything and, literally, everything has no bottom. There is no cutoff point beyond which now thoroughly-corrupted lawmakers will abandon him; he could sacrifice Mitch McConnell's family... |
Hunter | 01/26/2020 | 7 |
| Two reasons I loved Joe Biden last week I don’t think many people can accuse me of being a Biden fan. When he says something stupid, I call him out on it. But sometimes he reminds me of just what a different league he is in compared to Donald J Trump. I was moved by two things he did last... |
SemDem | 01/26/2020 | 15 |
| MSNBC’s Joy Reid calls out Trump apologist Jack Kingston on multiple impeachment lies MSNBC host Joy Reid said enough is enough with the lies when former Rep. Jack Kingston, of Georgia, attempted to defend President Donald Trump and badmouth Democratic presidential hopefuls in Congress after claiming they weren’t tuned into the... |
Lauren Floyd | 01/26/2020 | 40 |
| Kobe Bryant is reported to have died in a helicopter crash in Calabasas-updated A helicopter crashed and burst into flames Sunday morning amid foggy conditions in the hills above Calabasas, with multiple fatalities reported. The crash occurred shortly before 10 a.m. near Las Virgenes Road, south of Agoura Road, according to a... |
MTmofo | 01/26/2020 | 78 |
| Sekrit Armee Sundai — Stresst Owt?
Here is a gentle reminder of how we do things:
Pooties are cats; Woozles are dogs. Goggies are dogs, too. Birds...are birds! Peeps are people. PWB Peeps are Pooties, Woozle, Birds ... |
FosterMomInCA | 01/26/2020 | 121 |
| Sunday snippets: Court nixes case seeking TN voting security; did Iran prez threaten to resign? Sunday snippets is a regular weekend feature at Daily Kos.
• Sixth Circuit Court says tough beans to voter rights plaintiffs in Tennessee: A unanimous three-judge panel upheld a lower court ... |
Meteor Blades | 01/26/2020 | 16 |
| Tweets Of The Week Jan 19-25 2020 You’d think that the Senate impeachment show would distract the wingnuts from being wingnuts, but apparently deranged idiocy (or is it idiotic derangement?) is a full time job. Here’s your proof�� |
oldhippiedude | 01/26/2020 | 15 |
| Unproven, made-up ‘science’ and dangerous experiments fuel the right’s war on choice Traditionally, attacks on women’s reproductive rights were largely frontal in nature. Opponents argued that abortion was wrong on religious or moral grounds, and thus should be made illegal. While they continue to make those arguments, in recent years... |
Ian Reifowitz | 01/26/2020 | 33 |
| doesn't everyone keep blank world maps around for stunts to bully reporters Trump couldn’t find ______ on a map unless he had a sharpie to change the borders. You had to be there. CNN anchor Don Lemon was infected with a case of the giggles Saturday night while discussing Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Lemon was joined by two... |
annieli | 01/26/2020 | 34 |
| Cattle Call 2020: Bernie makes his Iowa (and national) move Taking a look at the national polling aggregate, Bernie Sanders is making a move:
My operating theory has been that Sanders can’t break past his core support in the high-teens. Polls aren’t ... |
kos | 01/26/2020 | 182 |
| Trump threatens NPR in wake of Pompeo outburst It’s no secret that Donald Trump hates media outlets that challenge him and his administration. In the past, he’s singled out The Washington Post and CNN, corruptly using his office to try to punish them and their parent companies. Now he appears to be... |
Aldous J Pennyfarthing | 01/26/2020 | 45 |
| A few Fact Checks for the Trump-Defenders Team — Assuming that somewhere in America — that facts still matter. Assuming that the 70% of Independents and 70% of Republicans — really do care about evidence and witnesses … I submit for your consideration, these facts — along with some note-worthy bits... |
jamess | 01/26/2020 | 11 |
| All things considered, NPR should totally steal this brilliant fundraising idea This was shared by a retired public radio host. (I won’t say who, but if she wants to come forward and claim her laurels, all the better.) The graphic itself was created by Gary Huck. (Give him some loves.) It’s effing brilliant: If NPR doesn’t steal... |
Aldous J Pennyfarthing | 01/26/2020 | 28 |
| Bernie's unabashed progressivism could smash CW like an unabashed conservative did 40 years ago Conventional Wisdom In 1976, Gerald Ford, who had become president when Richard Nixon resigned — and who pardoned Nixon, and who was portrayed as a hapless klutz by Chevy Chase on Saturday Night ... |
Rob in Vermont | 01/26/2020 | 173 |
| Elizabeth Warren in Davenport Iowa, Right Now Okay guys, I’m new to Daily Kos and I have no idea what I’m doing. The PWB peeps are trying to train me, but that process is just getting started. I certainly hasn’t taken hold yet. A bit of trivia, I was Warren’ s Cedar county chair in 2016. For about... |
I am not Arthur | 01/26/2020 | 58 |
| Tennessee governor signs bill into law that allows foster, adoption agencies to deny LGBTQ couples Republican Gov. Bill Lee signed an anti-LGBTQ “child welfare” measure into law on Friday, Jan. 24. In short, as previously covered at Daily Kos, the law allows faith-based adoption and foster agencies to deny LGBTQ families based on religious beliefs... |
Marissa Higgins | 01/26/2020 | 38 |
| Republicans make clear they won't be modifying their aversion to facts in defending Trump On Saturday, Donald Trump’s lawyers lifted the corner a bit on what will be the Republican strategy for fighting impeachment come Monday. First the Republicans will introduce the same five lies they’ve been spouting all along at the impeachment trial... |
Meteor Blades | 01/26/2020 | 41 |
| Human Origins: Making spoken language possible While there are two major ways in which language enables communication among humans, spoken language is the predominate form. In her chapter on the anatomical and physiological basis of language in ... |
Ojibwa | 01/26/2020 | 21 |
| 'Space Force' debuts new uniforms, Graham's 2020 opponent, and more you might have missed this week Yikes, where does the time go? How is it Sunday already? The impeachment trial has dominated the news cycle and our front page, but our staff also picked some other stories that might have flown ... |
Cara Zelaya | 01/26/2020 | 36 |
| New Day Cafe Sunday Things we like on Sunday mornings…..
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The Marti | 01/26/2020 | 68 |
| Another Trump threat, in a tweet... More threats from Trump, this time against Schiff. It fits in with the “head on a spike” pattern. Via twitter: @realDonaldTrump · 1h Shifty Adam Schiff is a CORRUPT POLITICIAN, and probably a very sick man. He has not paid the price, yet, for what he... |
Axel Rod | 01/26/2020 | 176 |
| On Being A Black Man Who Can Relate to a White Woman Last weekend I arrived at Southlands movie theatre a little after 12:00 pm. It did not take very long for me to find Sabrina, my best friend of ten years. Her long, wavy red hair was cascading over the back of the red chair and her skin was cream... |
Eihenetu | 01/26/2020 | 12 |
| Dawn Chorus: Cold Challenges for Birds We had a cold snap recently in the Pacific Northwest. It snowed a foot and the temp was subfreezing for a few days. This is nothing compared to many parts of the world where it’s below freezing for months at a time and snow or ice carpets the ground.... |
OceanDiver | 01/26/2020 | 53 |
| We must keep telling the story of Fred Hampton and 'The First Rainbow Coalition' As we face the challenges of life in a United States fraught with growing racism, xenophobia, and division, sown deeper each day from the highest office in the land and replicated across the states, ... |
Denise Oliver Velez | 01/26/2020 | 164 |
| New ABC/WAPO. Biden Leads Nationally and with African Americans Biden leads in a new ABC/ Washington post poll abcnews.go.com/… Biden-28, Sanders-24, warren-11, Bloomberg-8, Yang-7 Black voters overwhelmingly favor Biden by a wide margin. Biden-51, Sanders-15, warren-9. Biden also ahead on "candidate best able to... |
doroma | 01/26/2020 | 201 |
| Unfiltered Trump recorded in 2018 showed him to be likable with no signs of dementia The recording (above) of Trump’s saying he wanted Marie Yovanovitch fired is making the news (it is at 42 mins. on the 80 minute recording) but not for the reason which stood out when I listened to it. I am a psychotherapist and not an expert in... |
HalBrown | 01/26/2020 | 198 |
| Sunday Pundit Round-Up- The Senate Trial of Donald J. Trump Good morning and Happy Sunday to all! This morning we’re jumping right into the fire of the punditry about the Senate impeachment trial. The Senate Impeachment Trial of Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States Charles Pierce at Esquire... |
Chitown Kev | 01/26/2020 | 219 |
| Ayanna Pressley: "Joy is a necessary act of resistance." ☼ Who Won The Week? ☼ Sunday Good News Contents Ruminations and Revelations Joy Is an Act of Resistance: How Celebration Sustains Activism Mayor GoodNewsRoundup did it again yesterday Rachel Bitecofer: They all lied True Blue Report: Liberal Christian responds to Hymn for the 81% (They... |
2thanks | 01/26/2020 | 194 |
| Morning Open Thread - Grandpa Amu Makes a Toy Kangaroo Welcome to Morning Open Thread, a daily post with a MOTley crew of hosts who chose the topic for the day's posting. We support our community, invite and share ideas, and encourage thoughtful, ... |
Joy of Fishes | 01/26/2020 | 57 |
| Why Trump is supported by Evangelicals According to our former Attorney General Jeff Beauregard Sessions III, the government policy of taking young children from their parents at the border is OK because the Bible says so. He says: “I would cite you to the Apostle Paul and his clear and... |
Thoth777 | 01/26/2020 | 35 |
| Support EPA Workers The EPA has been getting hammered by the Trump Administration. There ARE people working there that want to do their jobs. Political appointees seem to have a very different idea of what the agency should be doing — or rather NOT doing. “In light of the... |
xrepub | 01/26/2020 | 1 |
| Joe Rogan Endorsement Flipped My Father From Bloomberg To Bernie Here is my analysis of a fascinating anecdotal political development in my family. I’ve personally had mixed feelings about the Joe Rogan endorsement as I’m not really a fan of the guy; this isn’t a statement that it’s “good” that it happened, I just... |
Exia | 01/25/2020 | 148 |
| Republican Senator John Barrasso gives perfect evidence of Republicans’ bad faith This is perfect. Here is Republican Senator John Barrasso on January 22nd, dismissing the House Managers’ case and opposing the call for taking additional evidence: “We’ve just come out listening to, what, six hours of testimony, and I didn’t hear... |
RETIII | 01/25/2020 | 68 |
| Saturday night owls: Teacher pay relative to that of other college graduates has collapsed Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week The liberal Economic Policy Institute has published 13 charts that it says show us where our economic priorities ought to be in 2020. The one above is No. 11. Here’s the text EPI... |
Meteor Blades | 01/25/2020 | 107 |
| Isabel Ellie Knaggs finally gets credit for her crucial discovery, 91 years later We need to set the record straight about something. It’s now taken for granted that carbon compounds like methane have a tetrahedral structure: But I wanted you to know who first determined this extremely important fact, back in 1929. It was not the... |
skralyx | 01/25/2020 | 66 |
| Top Comments: Electronics Recycling Edition Good evening, and a happy Saturday to you! In a bid to avoid nonstop news cycle coverage of whatever outrage is today (or rather, this hour then the next hour, we measure time very quickly in these ... |
brillig | 01/25/2020 | 25 |
| On Medicare For All From a Ford Retiree While I’ve been a regular visitor here for some years, I rarely post or comment. After all, who other than me really cares what I think? That said, here’s what I think: Like the headline says, I am a Ford Motor Company retiree. I worked there for 25... |
Enoch Ro0t | 01/25/2020 | 367 |
| I phone banked for the first time today... I have never done canvassing or phone banking, ever. In fact, I have to say the past few weeks have been harrowing, but I wanted to do something that would force me to do things I am not comfortable doing. I wanted to stretch myself a bit, so when I... |
sujigu | 01/25/2020 | 62 |
| Books So Bad They're Good: The Spear of Silliness I’ve always loved museums. This may be because of my parents, who first trotted me off to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History when I was about four and read me books about Roy Chapman Andrews and his expeditions to the Gobi Desert — Or it could have... |
Ellid | 01/25/2020 | 18 |
| Evangelical scammers praise Trump for hastening the end of the world. Well, they're not wrong... Mother Jones reporter Stephanie Mencimer has produced a good read on the "End Times" evangelicals who support Donald Trump because they believe, truly and sincerely, that Donald Trump will bring ... |
Hunter | 01/25/2020 | 250 |
| Islamic leaders make ‘groundbreaking’ visit to Auschwitz Monday is the 75th anniversary of the Jan. 27, 1945, liberation of Auschwitz. We all know that name, though there are few still alive who have first-hand knowledge of the horrors perpetrated there. I am heartened to know that it is not being forgotten.... |
neonomad | 01/25/2020 | 11 |
| Iowa's Biggest Newspaper, The Des Moines Register, Endorses Elizabeth Warren In The Dem Primary Some big news out of Iowa today courtesy of the Des Moines Register: The Des Moines Register editorial board endorses Elizabeth Warren in the 2020 Iowa Democratic caucuses as the best leader for these times. The senior U.S. senator from Massachusetts... |
poopdogcomedy | 01/25/2020 | 189 |
| Full video of Trump calling for Yovanovitch firing—seconds after Parnas smears her with lies In an 83-minute video published by PBS Newshour on Saturday, Donald Trump appears to chat with Lev Parnas—a man Trump has repeatedly insisted he does not know—and then immediately demand that then-Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch be fired. About... |
Jessica Sutherland | 01/25/2020 | 177 |
| In Hospital Again Back in the ER. Gallbladder problems plus unable to keep anything down. I'll be unable to post tomorrow if someone would please cover for me. You are welcome to use my artwork. |
michelewln | 01/25/2020 | 16 |
| Jay Sekulow is a busy person. When he is not fronting for Trump, he is pounding drums of all kinds. I was interested in just who Jay Sekulow is. I found out he is a very busy man. He is so busy that he is the perfect person that Trump would have picked to be Chief Council. He is an entertainer, an activist and reported to be one of the 4 horsemen (... |
Vetwife | 01/25/2020 | 47 |
| Unions face another year of eroding membership as the war on workers continues The share of U.S. workers represented by a union ticked down slightly from 2018 to 2019, dropping from 11.7% to 11.6%; the share of U.S. workers who are union members also dropped from 10.5% to 10.3% |
Laura Clawson | 01/25/2020 | 12 |
| Anything but impeachment: This week's picks from the Daily Kos Community Hey, Daily Kos Community! I don’t know about y’all, but it feels so good to not be watching the Impeachment Trial of Donald J. Trump this afternoon. I can’t be alone in that mood. I won’t waste any more of your time talking about that which has... |
Jessica Sutherland | 01/25/2020 | 18 |
| 75 Years After D-Day, American G.I. Reunites With His Long-Lost French Love. They Were Kids Again. Mississippian KT Robbins was a 24 year-old young man when he deployed to Europe in mid-1944. He was there for the allied invasion….D Day….. and France was in the process of being liberated from Nazi subjugation. He was in a company of bakers for the... |
Tevye | 01/25/2020 | 100 |
| Spotlight on green news & views: Saying goodbye to the platypus? Davos hears from Trump This is the 628th edition of the Spotlight on Green News & Views (previously known as the Green Diary Rescue). Here is the January 18 edition . Inclusion of a story in the Spotlight does ... |
Meteor Blades | 01/25/2020 | 4 |
| The Challenging Failures of a Broken Health Care System If there’s one issue on which there is consensus in this drawn out, drama-laden pre-election time it’s that our healthcare system is seriously broken. Whether voters are for an incremental approach to reform, a course correction for the Affordable Care... |
eclift | 01/25/2020 | 3 |
| Ancient Egyptian religious icons Welcome to the Street Prophets Coffee Hour cleverly hidden at the intersection of religion and politics. This is an open thread where we can share our thoughts and comments about the day. For many ... |
Ojibwa | 01/25/2020 | 5 |
| 2020 will see American astronauts launched on American rockets, but it's been a rough flight already On December 20, an Atlas V rocket carried Boeing’s new Starliner capsule into the Florida sky on its way to the International Space Station. But Starliner never arrived. A timing error left the capsule in the wrong orbit, and the necessary adjustments... |
Mark Sumner | 01/25/2020 | 126 |
| Saturday snippets: Prosecutor objects to calling torture 'torture'; Trump wows 'Marchers for Life' Saturday snippets is a regular feature of Daily Kos. • Trump regime used California wildfires to push more logging: Emails show that political appointees in the Interior Department sought to estimate carbon emissions from the state’s wildfires in 2018... |
Meteor Blades | 01/25/2020 | 36 |
| SURPRISE! Trump's FOX News Impeachment Defense Team Begins with 6 'Facts' that Are All Lies The day that Donald Trump has been waiting for (and whining about) has finally come. It's the day that marks the commencement of his Fox News Legal Team's presentation of his case against removing him from office now that he has been irrevocably... |
News Corpse | 01/25/2020 | 52 |
| Why Sanders' insistence on seeking an economic solution to racism is built on hollow mythology Do racism and bigotry increase during economic downturns, and decrease during economic good times? The belief that racism and economics are deeply connected, and that broad economic solutions can ... |
David Neiwert | 01/25/2020 | 358 |
| Analysis shows unarmed young black men are 13 times more likely to be victims of police shootings A statistical review published by psychologists from Michigan State University made headlines in 2019 when it claimed to find that “no evidence of anti-Black or anti-Hispanic disparities across [police] shootings, and White officers are not more likely... |
Mark Sumner | 01/25/2020 | 14 |
| 'Home Now': Somali refugees forge new lives and transform a dying Maine town When I moved from Chicago to San Francisco in 1973, I was struck by how many of my new friends were also migrants from other states. A native-born Californian was a rarity in those days. Many years ... |
Susan Grigsby | 01/25/2020 | 45 |
| Pompeo responds to reports of rage-filled tirade against reporter with lie-filled statement The non-impeachment bombshell of the week was NPR reporter Mary Louise Kelly's interview with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the interview in which he blustered and lied to the unflappable Kelly; the interview that so enraged him that he followed up... |
Joan McCarter | 01/25/2020 | 370 |
| Trump's defense begins opening arguments in impeachment trial: Live coverage #3 Donald Trump’s defense team previewed a very Donald Trump strategy during Tuesday’s procedural debate in the impeachment trial: lie, attack, ignore the facts. Now it’s time for a concentrated blast of that as they begin their opening arguments.... |
Laura Clawson | 01/25/2020 | 202 |
| Reminder: The Senate Impeachment Trial is Not for the Senators The outcome of the Senate impeachment trial is clear. The Republican will not vote to impeach and the two-thirds threshold for removal will not be met. Even if by some miracle, there is a majority vote to call witnesses and/or documents, the Republican... |
accumbens | 01/25/2020 | 10 |
| Trump's defense begins opening arguments in impeachment trial: Live coverage #2 Donald Trump’s defense team previewed a very Donald Trump strategy during Tuesday’s procedural debate in the impeachment trial: lie, attack, ignore the facts. Now it’s time for a concentrated blast of that as they begin their opening arguments.... |
Laura Clawson | 01/25/2020 | 225 |
| Trump's defense begins opening arguments in impeachment trial: Live coverage #1 Donald Trump’s defense team previewed a very Donald Trump strategy during Tuesday’s procedural debate in the impeachment trial: lie, attack, ignore the facts. Now it’s time for a concentrated blast of that as they begin their opening arguments. |
Laura Clawson | 01/25/2020 | 272 |
| Friday night owls: SF DA Chesa Boudin eliminates cash bail, proving elections have consequences John Nichols at The Nation writes— How Much Did Chesa Boudin’s Election Matter? He Just Eliminated Cash Bail : T he simple fact that Chesa Boudin got elected San Francisco’s district ... |
Meteor Blades | 01/24/2020 | 58 |
| Trump Admits that He's Only Interested in a Lie-Filled Reality TV Impeachment Show Trump has been tweeting up a storm on this fourth day of his Senate impeachment trial. Most of it has been retweets of the sycophantic Trump-fluffers who vainly try to defend the indefensible ... |
News Corpse | 01/24/2020 | 5 |
| Militia has a proper definition. It does not cover random amateurs inflicting death. They are not militia. Militia are authorized by, and responsible to, a sovereign government. They are under the command of a government official commissioned and authorized to use deadly force in support of their government. State National Guard are a... |
nolagrl | 01/24/2020 | 10 |
| This Jay Sekulow email ties Trump to Parnas and Fruman — File this little noticed news under the category of Hard Evidence of Trump’s Guilt: [...] In the wake of their arrest for allegedly violating federal campaign finance laws, President Trump repeatedly said he did not know either Parnas or Fruman.... |
jamess | 01/24/2020 | 113 |
| Evangelical Christian's song about the betrayal he feels from evangelical Trump support goes viral Daniel Deitrich is a Christian worship leader in South Bend, Indiana. As discussed in this article for Religious News Service, such worship leaders are among the 81% of evangelical Christians who voted for Donald Trump in 2016. Four years ago Dietrich... |
Dartagnan | 01/24/2020 | 310 |
| House managers wrap up their opening argument for impeachment: Live coverage #5 It’s the final day of the House managers’ opening arguments in the impeachment trial of Donald Trump. House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff delivered a closing argument for the ages on Thursday night, and now we get to find out what he left... |
Laura Clawson | 01/24/2020 | 146 |
| HUH? Trump Agrees with Biden that He Must Be Impeached and Removed From Office The longer the impeachment hearings for Donald Trump go on, the more deranged he becomes. He is clearly frightened and fixated on the proceedings despite his frequent and unconvincing dismissals. On Friday morning he once again posted a frantic flurry... |
News Corpse | 01/24/2020 | 12 |
| Hannity to 'interview' Trump before the Superbowl on FOX this Sunday The ownership society (that America is rapidly becoming), comes with lots of privileges for the elites. Including managing messaging on a massive scale by the corporate media. This might the most egregious example yet. Exclusive: Trump to Sit Down With... |
Lefty Coaster | 01/24/2020 | 8 |
| House managers wrap up their opening argument for impeachment: Live coverage #4 It’s the final day of the House managers’ opening arguments in the impeachment trial of Donald Trump. House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff delivered a closing argument for the ages on Thursday night, and now we get to find out what he left... |
Laura Clawson | 01/24/2020 | 148 |
| Is Moscow Mitch the messenger of the 'heads on pikes' threat from Trump to Republicans? Moscow Mitch McConnell has a team working overtime to work the refs, and getting the traditional press to spin out stories about his masterful control of the Senate. Like this one quoting people from his inner sphere, in which he is credited with... |
Joan McCarter | 01/24/2020 | 98 |